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    Another bizzare HR20 issue, maybe???

    Taping Friday Night Lights Premiere in MPEG4 last week on local NBC HD (obviously if it was MPEG4 it was HD) it recorded the audio background noises and music soundtrack but no charachters speaking, commercials were fine. What gives??? Now OTOH the local NBC is the one channel that gives me...
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    HR20 problems recording, two of them, input please

    1. On a few occasions, frequent, on 30 local news only, it either freezes near the beggining or I can't the show to play. Sometime I can hit the quick replay or FF it through the point and it will work and sometimes it just never will, it just freezes or the sound quites working and never...
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    Why is CBS HD not offered in Memphis and the other are

    I can't imagine DTV would not do this willingly, (they also don;t have PBS or CW but the CW station is owned by the local ABC affiliate which is on MPEG 4, but since those are not as popular I can safely assume they would make a smart buss. decision to hold off on those until they have every...
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    DTV horrible company/moron report update (final chapter)

    idiots were supposed to come out today after all my problems with the install they swore up and down to resolve and "get on my roof" to install my dish and never showed up, go figure, just as I told my wife would happen. Fools. Now I can't wait till I call to cancel after I get cable or Dish...
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    Comcast just took over in Memphis from TW which

    had horrid service the last three years, probably in past becasue they knew this was coming, we do not get ESPN2 in HD and do not get any spanish channels worth a darn, horrible, no UNivision, Galavision, Telemundo, nothing, only Fox Soccer Spanish is the only decent channel. We do not get...
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    Another install question, someone told me you need 2 dishs

    side by side, is this true, and assuming I can get a signal, can the Dish guy just use the old DTV cables that go to my sets or is there something sepcial about the cables, I know this is probably a really dumbass question, but I need to know before I schedule this so I can guess how much time I...
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    Does Dish require this Monster dish D* does

    to get HD which is causing me so many problems with installers saying 'we don;t get on roofs anymore"?????? (seems to me they will be losing a ton of buss. if they no longer install sat. on roofs, what an idiotic idea). 1. On Dish do you get an Center Ice games in Hd, and what about OLN...
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    Directv jacking me around and I am getting

    tired of them: 1. What number should I call to ask about good deals to leave DTV, I am a high end subscriber, a few rpemiums, CI, I have ST which I know DIsh does not but at this point I am sadly willing to let it go, and get hispanic channels and HD. I always called retention at DTV...
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    Directv Idiots strike again, do yourself a favor

    and call someone else first. 1. Morons come for 7th time to finally put Ku whatever dish on my house after not bringing it the first time only 8 weeks ago, talk about stupid. 2. Get here, after refusing to give it to me for free after promising it and reneging after I have to get ugly...
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    Final rant and problems with this crappy HD OTA and stories

    1. DTV sent me a POS OTA and sent my neghbor a great one 3x the size of mine of mine. The technician put his on the roof, his works fine, mine does not. 2. I have called 5 time to complain. My techincian refuses to hook mine to the top of my roof like my nighbors or hook up my mega good...
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    So is the HR20 available from DTV directly yet

    or not? Been out of twon this week and have not gotten my "e mail" I was supposed to get when this was no longer an LA thing. Last I heard it was avaiable at Best Buy or trhough them but not Through DTV directly yet, but coming soon, which is how retenetion told me they would give it to me for...
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    What HD channels does DIsh have thet everyone

    keeps castigating DTV about, I understood they don;t even have both ESPN's, how great could it be?
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    Why aren't all the HD NFLST channels on my MPEG2 guide????

    I am missing several of them, including the Saints-Browns game on 720, and I already forwarded my Tivo to tommorow, is this a bad sign? they assured me they would all be in MPEG2.
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    HR10 Tivo recording question alternate audio

    on my old Tivo I had alternate audio option for those channels thatg had it, I am hispanic and on GOL Tv for example I like tor ecord the games in Spanish and even on my Para Todos tier it comes across on an English primary audio tier. Why doesn't the HR10 have this or do I need to call and...
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    Are any NHLCI games in HD, like CBC HNIC?

    I know HDNET has some, but I mean the occasional 90's channel like MLB and NBA has for the EI and season pass customers, not the RSN feeds that supposedly require the MPEG4 or whatever it's called that I still will not get until it comes out with a Tivo. I say supposedly because retnetion...
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    Can I get a national Telefutura feed of I don;t

    have a local carrier in my area? A lot of soccer games are on this network and I do not have a local channel affiliated with this hispanic network.
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    Anyone have luck getting waivers from locals

    I have all kinds of trouble wihtout having to go up and move my OTA getting NBC and CBS, Fox gave me a waiver. One of my neighbors just went through DTV and they said no. I don;t see why they GAS since I already get their SD from DTV and still will for my other sets for local news. I mean...
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    Guide is not showing Patriots game as being

    in HDTV tomm., is this a mistake? Is it in HD? Need to set my Tivo, thanks.
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    Problem with DTV OTA antenna install, help...

    guy tried to put it inside attic, reception on one of the channels full of pixelezation, then he put it outside and even worse on that channel and one other one. He then tried to say I have to go outside and move the antenna every time I change channels with a scewdriver and that DTV uses OTA...
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    Are any Center Ice games in HD on DTV?

    I am a subscriber and just curious, and I mean other than HDNET,etc. I know CBC for example in canada has an HD broadcast for HNIC for at least one game a week, etc. But not sure if DTV puts those on the dish.
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    What's the diff b/w a 3 and 5 LNB if I can't

    get locals offered in memphis yet anyway? Will I miss out on some RSN HD broadcaasts or anything? Otherwise I don;t get why they won;t just stick a 5 LNB on my roof now, I forgot to ask when I was on the phone and they mentioned it, all they said was when locals are added and/or some...
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    Install question, ungrading to HD

    i've done seevarl moves and upgrades before, only had one problem and it ended up being a faulty switch. But reading all these nightmares and since I am no longer paying the installers it has be paranoid. Myd eal with DTV is they are moving my analog Tivo upstairs and running an additional line...
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    Any thoughts on the Toshiba 62" DLP?

    Have heard mostly good reviews, some bad about the bulb light but the recent reviews say that problem has been fixed.
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    Need help, DTV customer since 95 at a very

    high level, am considered a "best customer" and should be, I spend well over a hundred a month on programming plus 2-3 sports premiums a year like NFL, NHL and Euro Cup and Rugby PPV's etc. I am about to buy a MB 62" HDTV. This HD DTV thing blows as far as I can tell but I have only looked at...